Asymmetric Primitive-Model Electrolytes: Debye-Huckel Theory, Criticality and Energy Bounds

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2001-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104544v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

to appear in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.64.011206

Debye-Huckel (DH) theory is extended to treat two-component size- and charge-asymmetric primitive models, focussing primarily on the 1:1 additive hard-sphere electrolyte with, say, negative ion diameters, a--, larger than the positive ion diameters, a++. The treatment highlights the crucial importance of the charge-unbalanced ``border zones'' around each ion into which other ions of only one species may penetrate. Extensions of the DH approach which describe the border zones in a physically reasonable way are exact at high $T$ and low density, $\rho$, and, furthermore, are also in substantial agreement with recent simulation predictions for \emph{trends} in the critical parameters, $T_c$ and $\rho_c$, with increasing size asymmetry. Conversely, the simplest linear asymmetric DH description, which fails to account for physically expected behavior in the border zones at low $T$, can violate a new lower bound on the energy (which applies generally to models asymmetric in both charge and size). Other recent theories, including those based on the mean spherical approximation, have predicted trends in the critical parameters quite opposite to those established by the simulations.

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